Because he has lived for too long and deliberately avoided the world, Li Xiuyuan's name has gradually disappeared in Guobei County. His name can only be found in the genealogy.
After all, many things can be forgotten after generations of birth, old age, illness and death.
Even though Li Xiuyuan was famous and well-known throughout the world when he was young, now he is just an unknown hermit living in Lanruo Temple.
Only the two fox girls Qing'e and Hu Sanjie still accompany him.
They are vixens with thousands of years, and a hundred years is nothing to them.
"Third Sister, Xiao'e, why do you think I'm not dead yet?" On this day, Li Xiuyuan was practicing his sword in the yard, stretching his muscles, and suddenly asked Third Sister Hu and Qing'e who were standing aside.
"Maybe it's because the destiny hasn't arrived yet. Why does my husband always ask this? Is there anything wrong with living all the time? Or maybe my husband is tired of the slave family and the third sister." Qing'e said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "That's not the reason. It's because everyone dies once, and everyone is no exception. Naturally, I can't be an exception. I think you are hiding something from me. I'm going to the underworld to find Wang Ping and check the book of life and death."
"What kind of underworld are you going to? The gloomy place there is not a place for living people. Why don't you go sightseeing with me and your husband?" Sister Hu said with a flirtatious look.
Li Xiuyuan said: "We have traveled all over the world, haven't we seen enough of the misery in the world?"
That night, Li Xiuyuan went to the underworld and met Wang Ping despite the obstruction of the two fox girls.
Wang Ping wore a long robe, an official hat, a long beard, and was dignified and steady. He was no longer the young boy he used to be. When he saw Li Xiuyuan, he couldn't help but sigh: "Brother Li, I knew you would definitely do it."
One day I can't help but come to the underworld to ask about my longevity. Even now I can't
I have hidden something from you. In fact, your real lifespan was exhausted when you were one hundred years old. Brother Li, the reason why you have lived for twenty more years is because none of the ghosts and gods in the underworld dare to seduce your soul.
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"Ma Dong, Niu Er and the others have given death orders to all the ghosts and gods under their command to avoid you when they see you, and will never discuss your longevity. Hei Bai Wuchang also often tells his subordinates that they can seize the soul of anyone in the world, but not you."
"Their connivance and the protection of your wives and concubines have given you immortality."
After Wang Ping finished speaking, he opened a page of the book of life and death. The book of life and death was shining with golden light that night, and it was clearly written in it: Li Xiuyuan of Guobei County died at the age of 100.
"So that's it." Li Xiuyuan was silent: "Their loyalty to me has good intentions, but I don't want to live in this world because of their special case. Brother Wang, please send me to be reincarnated tonight."
Wang Ping said in shock, "Brother Li, with your merits, you can enter the Immortal Palace and become a righteous god. Why do you want to enter reincarnation?"
"My merits in this life can at best make me a god, but if I accumulate the merits of ten lifetimes, I can become a saint." Li Xiuyuan pointed to the top of his head and said: "I have already achieved the great path. I don't need to deliberately do good deeds to accumulate merits. I will accumulate merits in every lifetime.
, my merits will be perfect after ten lives. If I go against the cycle of reincarnation and stay there forever,
If you live in this world, it will only continuously reduce your merit."
"It looks like I will live forever, but in fact it is just preventing me from attaining enlightenment."
Wang Ping stroked his beard and said: "I see, then Brother Li, when do you plan to come back?"
"In a thousand years, I will come, and there are some things I have to do after a thousand years," Li Xiuyuan said.
"Do you want to say something to the others?" Wang Ping said.
Li Xiuyuan said: "No, you just know. If the third sister asks and says that I have been reincarnated, you ask the third sister to prepare my funeral, and I have already prepared for what will happen after my death.
After all, after living for more than a hundred years, he may die at any time."
"Brother Li, let me give you a ride." Wang Ping bowed his hand and said.
"Thank you."
On this day, Li Xiuyuan died in his sleep at the age of 120.
After knowing this, Sister Hu angrily rushed into the underworld with her sword, found Wang Ping and said, "Wang Ping, where did you hide my husband? Why didn't my husband return to his soul for three whole days?"
Wang Ping wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said: "Madam, don't be impulsive. Brother Li has already been reincarnated. He should be a newborn baby now. It is too late to retrieve his soul. Moreover, the reincarnation is also Brother Li's."
My idea, this is the letter left by Brother Li, I would like to ask Madam to read it."
Li Xiuyuan had long expected such a result, so he left a letter.
When Sanjie Hu took the letter and read it, her anger subsided a lot. She said fiercely: "Because of my husband's merits, he will be reincarnated as a prince, general or a powerful disciple. There won't be many babies born in these days. I'm going to find my husband."
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"Madam, even if you find him, it won't help. After he was reincarnated, he had an infertility disorder and can't remember anything about his previous life." Wang Ping advised: "And Brother Li also said that he will come back in a thousand years."
"We have only been husband and wife for a hundred years, and we have to wait another thousand years to reunite. It is too long." After saying this, Third Sister Hu left the underworld without looking back.
Apparently he went to find Li Xiuyuan's reincarnation.
Wang Ping sighed: "What an infatuated fox! What more can a husband ask for when he has such a wife?"
Time flies and it is three hundred years later.
Although three hundred years is not enough time to change the world, the sun and the moon have changed, but the time has come for the mortal world to change dynasties again.
This year, the world was in chaos and the people were in dire straits. A man named Li Zicheng led an army to capture the capital.
Chongzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, fled to the capital.
On the way, he encountered a Black Mountain. The Black Mountain he meant was Meishan, which was called Black Mountain before people didn’t know it. Emperor Chongzhen climbed up to Black Mountain without knowing what was going on, and after some emotion, he stood under a crooked tree.
He committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.
He died.
A hole opened in the black mountain, and a tiger carved from stone came out.
"It's been hundreds of years, tsk tsk, I didn't expect that the old black mountain demon came back to life again. Then Li Xiuyuan should have been dead for hundreds of years by now. If I don't accept that tone, I must dig up his grave.
By crushing his bones, I have avenged my revenge. Bah, I came out of the mountain today.
The last emperor came to my territory and still wants to get out alive? I will kill you first to celebrate."
"With the world in chaos, I chose a damn good time."
The old monster of Black Mountain was killed as a way to escape from the golden cicada's shell. He left behind an idea to fake his death and escape from the world, to avoid the catastrophe, and wait for his Taoism to recover before returning to the world.
Now it is exactly as he planned.
The national master at that time died, the Wutong Sect was destroyed, the Great Song Dynasty died, and Li Xiuyuan also suffered a death. However, the old demon from Black Mountain is still alive, although the price of his comeback is a bit high.
But it's all worth it, because no saint will be born in this life.
The old demon of Montenegro felt that his generation had come. Although his Taoism had not returned to its heyday, as long as no one hindered him, he could go into the mortal world to collect incense and take supplements, and he would be able to regain his former glory in less than a hundred years.
"Sure enough, the one who laughs at the end is the winner." The old demon from Montenegro said with emotion.
Just when it was about to descend from the mountain and stir up the world.
Suddenly the sky shook, and there seemed to be thunder and lightning, and then a white light hung across the sky, illuminating the entire Black Mountain.
This light is invisible to mortals, only ghosts and spirits can see it.
"This aura is..." Suddenly, the old Black Mountain demon raised his head and looked at the sky in fear, and shouted out loud, "Immortal-killing sword?"
"Damn it, isn't Li Xiuyuan already dead? Why is his sword hanging in the sky?"
The white light fell and fell on Meishan.
The old Black Mountain demon roared in fear, but his soul was completely killed, and his body died.
After the white light, the stone-shaped tiger sculpture that had been buried underground for many years instantly shattered and turned into rubble on the ground.
An evil spirit conspired to murder the last emperor, and the crime was so heinous that the Immortal-Slaying Sword was inspired and fell from the sky to slay the evil spirit.
This old Black Mountain monster, who had been hiding for hundreds of years and had just emerged from the mountains, died before he could bring trouble to the world.
Since then, the name Black Mountain no longer exists, only the word Meishan.
It's just that this scene didn't happen only this year. Since the immortal-killing sword hung in the sky, countless evil-doing demons have been killed for hundreds of years.
The death of the big demon shocked the spirits with shallow morals. They were afraid of the human world and chose to avoid the mountains and forests, not daring to do evil again.